Friday, August 7, 2020

"one of the fattest spiders at the heart of the web of muddled not-quite-thinkable-thoughts and evidence-free assertions of limitless scope, which practitioners of theorrhoea have woven into their version of the humanities."

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     Raymond Tallis, "The shrink from hell," a review of Jacques Lacan (New York:  Columbia University Press, 1997), by Elizabeth ...
Saturday, August 1, 2020

"Marriages are contracted for always, not for ever."

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"Ehen werden für immer geschlossen, nicht für ewig."      Bernd Wannenwetsch,  Die Freiheit der Ehe,  299, as quoted by Chris...
Saturday, July 18, 2020

"error concerning creatures . . . spills over into false opinion about God".

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"the opinion is false of those who asserted that it made no difference to the truth of the faith what anyone holds about creatures, so ...

"a sober person does not take less pleasure in food taken in moderation than the glutton, but his concupiscence reposes less in such pleasures."

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"Beasts are without reason. In this way man becomes, as it were, like them in coition, because he cannot moderate concupiscence. In the...
Saturday, July 11, 2020

Newspeak

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     "I may come down from my garret with a plan in view, intending the first move towards the 'liquidation of the bourgeoisie'...
Saturday, July 4, 2020

In praise of a theological mediocrity

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It was "the developed neo-Nicene theology of the Trinity and its concept of the hypostases that could for the first time provide the ...

"There it is that Paul, there it is that Peter, will rise, and be caught up to meet the Lord in the air."

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     St. John Chrysostom, Homilies on Romans 32.  Greek from In divi Pauli epistolam ad Romanos homiliae XXXIII, ed. F. Field (Oxford:  J. H...